Striker Darío Benedetto will start next Wednesday in the match that Boca will play against Quilmes in Mendoza, for the quarterfinals of the Argentine Cup, while goalkeeper Sergio “Chiquito” Romero underwent surgery on his right knee.
In practice this Monday in Ezeiza, Benedetto was in good condition along with midfielder Juan Ramírez, another who will start against the Buenos Aires team. The attacker was absent in the 1-0 victory against Godoy Cruz in Mendoza due to having suffered a severe stomach upset, for which he did not train for four days. The presence of the striker is important in a team that once again, as against the Mendoza team, will have to play with several substitutes.
Among the possible absentees may be the youthful Luca Langoni, who did not practice with the squad and was in kinesiology due to a strong trauma to his left ankle and it will be seen if he can be against the “Brewers”. Langoni, scorer of the winning goal against “Tomba”, received a strong stomp from defender José Canale, who also pushed him against the advertising posters on the same play.
Meanwhile, Marcos Rojo and Nicolás Figal also did different exercises, both with injuries to their right knees. In the morning training they were not risky and it will be seen if they can be in the Malvinas Argentinas. The Peruvian defenders Luis Advíncula and Carlos Zambrano, and the Colombian winger Frank Fabra will not be present either, for being in their selections within the framework of the FIFA date.
So, the possible eleven to play against Quilmes would be Agustín Rossi; Marcelo Weigandt, Facundo Roncaglia, Gabriel Aranda or Marcos Rojo and Agustín Sandez; Martín Payero, Alan Varela, Guillermo “Pol” Fernández and Juan Ramírez; Luis Vázquez or Luca Langoni and Darío Benedetto.
Boca will train on Tuesday in Ezeiza in the morning hours and at 3:30 pm they will travel by charter flight to Mendoza, from where they will return by the same route as soon as the game against the “brewer” has finished.
As for goalkeeper Sergio Romero, one of the additions this semester, he will be operated on this afternoon by Dr. Jorge Batista at a sanatorium in San Isidro. The intervention is the right knee of “Chiquito”, where they will undergo an arthroscopy, so it is very difficult for him to be able to play this season, which will end in early November.
According to what they told Télam close to the “xeneize” leadership, a clause that was in the World Cup goalkeeper’s contract (South Africa 2010 and Brazil 2014) will be activated, for which if the soccer player had a physical problem in his right knee the amount of his salary established in the signature of his file would be lowered.
The 35-year-old goalkeeper, who was in coach Hugo Ibarra’s plans to play and make his debut against Quilmes in Mendoza, had undergone a similar intervention in March of this year to remove mobile bodies from his knee joint and it is for that he did not play for Venezia in Italy, his last club before returning to Argentina.